Dictionary entry

Mankind

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Man′kind″ (?), n. [AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind, n.] 1. The human race; man, taken collectively.

The proper study of mankind is man. Pore.

2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. Lev. xviii. 22.

3. Human feelings; humanity. B. Jonson.